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23 Jan 2017
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Big pay raises bring big benefits, Quincy firm decides

05 Aug 2014
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The Big Share

Keywords: Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Hospitality

30 Oct 2013
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Make Big Bets: How Blockbuster Strategies Work

19 Oct 2022
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Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) made big news in February when his Tata Group purchased Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steel producer, the Financial Times reported (February 3, 2007). The $12 billion deal was one for the record books as the largest... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

hiring decisions than humans. In these stories from our recent archives, Harvard Business School researchers outline the promises of big data—and the limitations of trying to harness data from a firehose.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health

November 2016 (Revised September 2018)
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Elon Musk's Big Bets

By: David B. Yoffie, Eric Baldwin and Brandon Kaufmann

Between late 2014 and late 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk undertook several major, and risky, initiatives that would dramatically expand the scale and scope of Tesla’s business. In late 2014, Tesla began construction on a $5 billion “gigafactory” that would manufacture... View Details

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1988
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The Essential Alfred Chandler: Essays Toward a Historical Theory of Big Business

Keywords: Business History

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12 Feb 2015
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Make Big Bets: How Blockbuster Strategies Work

11 Mar 2019
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Enabling Big Thinking

later launched Dealogic, a financial services software firm. Their success in business enabled Peter to set up the Ogden Trust in 1998, a nonprofit that initially provided funding for talented students to pursue higher education and that... View Details

15 May 2019
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The Case For Breaking Up Big Tech

June 2016 (Revised November 2021)
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chotuKool: 'Little Cool,' Big Opportunity

By: Rory McDonald, Derek van Bever and Efosa Ojomo

In 2013, a team led by Gopalan Sunderraman, vice president of corporate development at Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.—one of the companies owned by Godrej Group, a large Indian conglomerate—was preparing to launch an innovative low-cost refrigerator. Developed expressly... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; India

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14 Oct 2015
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Big data, massive potential

14 Oct 2014
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Working capital loans have a big impact on India’s small business owners

Maya Chorengel (MBA 1997), managing director of Elevar Equity, describes her investment firm’s work to provide working capital loans to small business owners in India. (Published October 2014) View Details

29 Oct 2012
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Private equity guru's mission to show big business can do altruism

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

Mar 06 2017
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Seeing the Big Picture

18 May 2012
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Too big to manage?

08 Oct 2010
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Big Banks, Small Clients

May 2020
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Big Boom Beverages: Fight or Flight?

By: Stephen A. Greyser and William Ellet

Four college friends market a beverage that combines ingredients like those in a drink they consumed in college bars. It includes a caffeinated energy drink, malt liquor, and a soft drink flavoring. They launch the business, Big Boom Beverages (BBB), with their own... View Details